1+ week, 1+ day ago   (711+ words) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Fox News (8/8/26; Time, 8/13/26) that El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani are “Islamists”: “They want Sharia law, they hate Jews, they hate Christians, they hate capitalism, they hate America.” President Trump got in on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (234+ words) Originally published in Gad World. ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the United States, and yet Muslim political candidates are enjoying a banner year. This sentiment, however, isn’t restricted to the level of the states....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (452+ words) Middle East Monitor 08/19/2026 These tirades have been interpreted to mean that the American Right has an Islamophobia problem and that we just have to ‘power through’ it – meaning if we put our heads down and work hard enough and remind…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (351+ words) The soothing “moderate” label routinely goes to candidates like Stevens who’ve supported continual arming of Israel. She “benefited from about $62 million in advertising spending from half a dozen outside groups,” the Times noted. “Over half of that sum came from…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (589+ words) © 2026 Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The phony controversy cooked up by rightwingers over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s participation in the upcoming anniversary mourning the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York is…...